More than 400 rare antique items dating back to the Tay Son dynasty(1778-1802) are on display at an exhibition in HCM City .
The exhibition at the Vietnam History Museum featuresterracotta items like tiles, bricks, vases, plates and cups as well asseveral official documents including letters and royal decrees signed byEmperor Quang Trung.
The display also has ancient coinsand weapons including swords, bayonets and a huge cannon found at ThiNai Lagoon, considered very rare by collectors. Some spoons and bowsfound on the riverbed in the Rach Gam-Xoai Mut area in the Mekong Deltaare also on show.
Organisers said many of the objects are being exhibited for the first time.
Nine museums and historical sites nationwide have lent their antiquecollections for this exhibition as have six collectors in HCM Cityand Dong Nai province.
Although the dynasty's reign wasshort-lived at 32 years, the Tay Son peasant rebellion that crowned itis a landmark event in Vietnamese history.
Even though thesucceeding Nguyen dynasty forbade the use of materials and theintellectual heritage of the Tay Son dynasty, destroying many of itsvestiges, the material remains of that period have not disappearedcompletely.
The exhibition, titled The Eternal Halo,celebrates the 240th anniversary of the Tay Son Uprising (1771- 2011)and 222nd anniversary of Quang Trung's victory over the Chinese Qinginvaders in 1789.
The exhibition at Nguyen Binh Khiem Street in District 1 will remain open until October./.
The exhibition at the Vietnam History Museum featuresterracotta items like tiles, bricks, vases, plates and cups as well asseveral official documents including letters and royal decrees signed byEmperor Quang Trung.
The display also has ancient coinsand weapons including swords, bayonets and a huge cannon found at ThiNai Lagoon, considered very rare by collectors. Some spoons and bowsfound on the riverbed in the Rach Gam-Xoai Mut area in the Mekong Deltaare also on show.
Organisers said many of the objects are being exhibited for the first time.
Nine museums and historical sites nationwide have lent their antiquecollections for this exhibition as have six collectors in HCM Cityand Dong Nai province.
Although the dynasty's reign wasshort-lived at 32 years, the Tay Son peasant rebellion that crowned itis a landmark event in Vietnamese history.
Even though thesucceeding Nguyen dynasty forbade the use of materials and theintellectual heritage of the Tay Son dynasty, destroying many of itsvestiges, the material remains of that period have not disappearedcompletely.
The exhibition, titled The Eternal Halo,celebrates the 240th anniversary of the Tay Son Uprising (1771- 2011)and 222nd anniversary of Quang Trung's victory over the Chinese Qinginvaders in 1789.
The exhibition at Nguyen Binh Khiem Street in District 1 will remain open until October./.
